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I don't think that the city of San Francisco should get to own the term "San Francisco Bay". The city of San Francisco (population 808,437) is only a minority part of the San Francisco Bay Area (population 9.71 million)
None of that is to say that the airport should be called that, but I don't think I like the city of San Francisco heading in this direction.
EDIT: Though if the city of San Francisco wants to have a name more-distinct from the whole San Francisco Bay Area, they could do a rename:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco
"Yerba Buena" kinda rolls off the tongue nicely, and the ICAO code "YBO" appears to be free if SFO wants it.
EDIT2: And the San Francisco Bay had the name before the city-currently-known-as-San-Francisco adopted it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay
Here's an 1845 map of California with the city of Yerba Buena on the Bahia de San Francisco:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/71/2a/2a/712a2a6af54c1eef7bdabee9488c8862.jpg
All canadian airports use Y as the first letter. But its not only canadian airports that use Y as the first letter in the code.
Weird
Not all Canadian airports use Y. They use Y to denote yes it has a radio beacon. If it doesn't, they start with W for without.
Oh it was my understanding that was the way it used to be but was changed years ago, appreciate the correction!
I remember watching some video on YouTube once about ICAO code allocation. They try to make things fit some general themes, but have a lot of exceptions for practicality.
Might have been CGP Grey.
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Yup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfOUVYQnuhw